The Tour comes to Cambridge

Monday July 7th sees the World’s biggest and most important bike race, Le Tour de France comes to Cambridge, home of The Light Blue bicycles. Stage 3 of this year’s Tour starts in Cambridge and travels 155km to London before finishing outside Buckingham Palace on The Mall.

Monday July 7th sees the World’s biggest and most important bike race, Le Tour de France comes to Cambridge, home of The Light Blue bicycles.

Stage 3 of this year’s Tour starts in Cambridge and travels 155km to London before finishing outside Buckingham Palace on The Mall.

This year will be the 101st edition of this iconic sporting spectacle, which was first run in 1903 (the were no races during the two World Wars). Competed over 21 stages and 3664km, this year’s race will start with two stages in Yorkshire before visiting East Anglia and the home counties. The race then crosses the English Channel and completes a circuit of France, embracing the cobbled roads of Northern France, the Alps and Pyrenean mountains before climaxing on the Champs Elysee in Paris.

2013 saw Britain’s Chris Froome win the famous Yellow Jersey, while compatriot Sir Bradley Wiggins became the first British rider ever to win the event in 2012.